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Have you travelled Europe? Other than in some countries like Germany or Ireland the job situation is quite bleak. For example, look at average wages vs living c
by vatsachak 1y ago
Have you travelled Europe? Other than in some countries like Germany or Ireland the job situation is quite bleak. For example, look at average wages vs living costs in Madrid
- HPsquared 1y agoLiving costs in Ireland are crazy though. Dublin is more expensive (on average) than London, I'd say.
- dnissley 1y agoThat's why you need to get rich before moving to Europe
- mothballed 1y agoOr just live like a European? The cost of a Latvian investment visa is something like the price of an average new car. It's obtainable to most anyone gainfully employed in skilled labor in the USA. Virtually anyone here that wants one can get it and move there.
- vatsachak 1y agoOkay, besides being of Latvian descent, why would one want to move from the US to Latvia?
- mothballed 1y agoHomebase for smuggling French cheeses into Russia?
- hexbin010 1y agoExactly. I think people think it means you get an EU passport immediately or something and can spend 364 days a year in any EU country?? You only get a Schengen visa and are restricted to 180 days total outside of Latvia, inside the Schengen. But you can do that without a Latvian residence permit... AIUI it's 10 years to get an EU - sorry, Latvian - passport and for an individual year to count towards that you need 183+ days a year in Latvia
- mothballed 1y agoOther than years to citizenship, isn't that the same deal anywhere in EU? The point is getting a residence permit in EU country is step 1, and step 1 is accessible to fairly average white collar US worker who wants to move to the EU.
- xp84 1y agoEspecially given that odds are better than 50% that you will find yourself in a new, larger Russia at some point in the next 5-10 years. Not cheering the prospect, but it seems like Putin knows the US won’t get involved in Europe anymore, and therefore Russian expansion into all former Soviet territory, at minimum, just makes sense.
- polotics 1y agoLatvia is more likely to defend itself successfully than Ukraine, Latvia joined NATO in 2004, an aggression there spells the end of the whole Russian oil industry, and after that Russia's North Korea.
- xp84 1y agoNATO is dead. Latvia, if defended, will be defended only by anemic EU forces. Trump has made clear that he views alliances as purely transactional, and he’s obviously correct that due to geography the US has nothing to fear from any non-nuclear scenario. Therefore, I doubt either Europe or America will honor Article 5 for the other anymore.
- j1elo 1y ago* Good "Base" salary: around €30,000-35.000 gross annually is considered a good base for a single person in Spain, including larger cities. From there, thech workers might be able to get a better salary. This is before taxes, of which there are plenty, so you can count that final effective take-home money is around 60-70% of that. VAT is 21% so that's another chunk that you'll contribute each time you purchase stuff. * Median rent price in the city: one-bedroom apartment is around €1,000/month; 3-bedroom apartment around €1,500-€2,000.
- BobbyTables2 1y agoAlways did find it curious that Spain seems to have few suburbs. Just apartment complexes up to the city’s edge and then farmland…